When friends and family ask me, “So, how is the book business these days?”, I have usually answered, “Dunno, I'm retired.”

(For those that don't know, I wrote a few books a couple of years back.)

Book publishing is a brutal business, and authors often get the short end of the stick. Besides earning a lousy $1.30 for each $25 book sold, the last book contract I signed would have given me an advance of about $7 per hour of time invested. That's minimum wage in Canada!

I have had a completed book kicking around on my hard drive for a while. One of the publishers I worked with went out of business before the book could get published. I've been thinking about it for a while, and so I decided to publish it myself.

Check it out at Lulu here. It's called “JavaScript 2.0: Everything You Need to Know”.

For less than $2, you can own an entire copy of this book in PDF format. Or if paper is your thing, it costs $7. The first edition contains only the first chapter, but over the next few weeks I will add more. And certainly within a month I will have the entire book uploaded. And anyone who buys it now (at this low price) will get the whole thing as a PDF free when it's complete.

So please, check it out and let me know what you think.